| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| B – American singer ____ Mars; the name is derived from an Old High German name meaning “brown” | Bruno | 98%
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| E – NFL team Philadelphia ____, or the band with the hit “Hotel California” | Eagles | 94%
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| L – nickname for both Lionel Messi and the Hollywood actor starring in Titanic and Inception | Leo | 93%
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| Y – the only country that begins with the letter Y in English | Yemen | 91%
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| C – something the Sun has, or a popular Mexican beer | Corona | 86%
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| X – video gaming brand created by Microsoft | Xbox | 86%
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| I – industrial rock back Nine ____ Nails, or something that is still used in USA and Liberia | Inch | 85%
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| Z – is “nulo“ in Esperanto, or “love” in tennis | Zero | 82%
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| U – organization that won Nobel Peace Prize for 2001, along with Kofi Annan | United Nations | 81%
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| O – to determine which direction one is facing, or a term that comprises anything that belongs to the Eastern world | Orient | 80%
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| V – city with the world's oldest film festival and where you’d find the Doge's Palace | Venice | 80%
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| S – world's greatest dramatist, “The Bard”, whose son was called Hamnet | William Shakespeare | 80%
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| Q – fictional hunchback in a Paris cathedral that, in real life, burned badly in 2019 | Quasimodo (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) | 79%
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| K – first name of the character in South Park who got killed many, many times | Kenny | 77%
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| W – Laura Esquivel’s novel Like ___ for Chocolate, or one of the four classical elements | Water | 77%
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| T – pack of playing cards including The Empress, The Magician and Death | Tarot | 76%
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| F – to travel through a gas or a vacuum, or an insect of the order Diptera | Fly | 71%
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| H – if it’s on the ____, it’s free and paid for | House | 71%
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| J – Honda model equivalent to Fit, or a musical art form characterized by polyrhythms and improvisation | Jazz | 70%
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| R – country where the second largest city is Iași | Romania | 66%
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| M – Latin term for "greatest", or Russell Crowe’s gladiator | Maximus | 64%
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| N – widely used nickname for Columbus’s ship Santa Clara | La Niña | 55%
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| A – is currently at 66.5°N but moves north about 15 m per year | Arctic circle | 53%
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| G – Niger River drains into the Gulf of _____ | Guinea | 48%
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| D – Blade Runner main character Rick (name pronounced roughly the same way as the name of the French philosopher René who actually made the sentence “I think, therefore I am” famous) | Deckard | 26%
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| P – rover that landed on Mars in February 2021, nicknamed Percy | Perseverance | 21%
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